Reuters reports: An Indian court in the southern state of Tamil Nadu has told insurer Star Health to help Telegram identify data leaked via its messaging app so the chatbots can be deleted. The country’s biggest insurer with roughly $4 billion market cap approached the Madras High Court in the southern state of Tamil Nadu…
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OnePoint Patient Care notifies almost 800,000 patients of August ransomware attack
On September 15, INC Ransom added OnePoint Patient Care to its leak site. The threat actors claimed to have encrypted the hospice dispensing pharmacy and pharmacy benefits management service’s files. It wasn’t long after that INC leaked all of the data. The Arizona-based provider notified HHS of the incident on October 14, reporting that 795,916…
Cardiology of Virginia patient data appears to be up for sale. Has the entity issued any statement at all?
On September 7, RansomHub added Cardiology of Virginia to its dark web leak site, claiming that about 1 TB of files had been acquired. DataBreaches assumes no payment agreement was struck as RansomHub subsequently leaked data, complete with a filelisting, youtube video, and other files. “For bulk archive and confidential data analyzes trough our own…
Russia recommends prison sentence for REvil hackers
SC Media reports: Russia was reported by local media outlet Kommersant to have resumed legal proceedings and recommended prison sentences against four alleged members of Russian hacking group REvil, including suspected leader Daniil Puzyrevsky, after several delays over the past two years, according to The Record, a news site by cybersecurity firm Recorded Future. While…
Russia says ‘unprecedented’ cyber attack hits foreign ministry amid BRICS summit
Reuters reports: The Russian Foreign Ministry was targeted by a severe cyber attack on Wednesday, coinciding with the major BRICS summit taking place in the country, spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said. Earlier Zakharova said that the ministry had been targeted by a large-scale distributed denial-of-service attack (DDoS). “A massive cyberattack from abroad began this morning on…
Nigerian court drops charges against detained Binance executive Tigran Gambaryan
Dina Temple-Raston and James Reddick report: A Nigerian court has dropped all charges against Tigran Gambaryan, Binance’s head of financial crime compliance and a prominent former IRS investigator, two people with knowledge of the case told The Record on Wednesday. Gambaryan had been detained in Nigeria since February on money laundering and tax evasion charges….